Dress-shield.



rim-724,112. I PATENTED MAR. 31, 1903.-

. s; E. KING.

DRESS SHIELD.

APPLICATION IILEIDJAN. 3. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

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SARA EMMA KING, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

DRESS-SHIELD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No 724,112, dated March 31, 1903.

' Application filed January 3, 1903. Serial No. 137,738. (No modelJ To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SARA EMMA KING, of the city of Decatur, county of Macon, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in DressShields, of which the following is a specification.

The principal object of this invention is to prevent dress-shields of ordinary construction from wrinkling and creeping up in a manner to leave the garment more or less exposed, while leaving the shield perfectly pliable to conform to the shape and movements of the wearer and the garment.

I accomplish my object by means of a peculiarly-constructed reinforcing or strengthening wire bound in or otherwise secured to the edges of the shield. Attempts have here-.

tofore been made to accomplish this result by means of reinforcing-wires; but in such case plain wires have been used, with the result that the creeping up or folding has been overcome at the expense of pliability and a stiff, bungling, uncomfortable shield has been produced. In other cases pliability has been produced to the desired extent without permanent assurance against folding or creeping, as the material used has not been imperviews to perspiration and has been injuri ously affected by perspiration so far as the purposes herein described are concerned.

I construct my reinforcing-wire by taking a small pliable and somewhat elastic wire and coiling another wire or a continuation of the original or core-wire around said corewire. The outside wire is closely coiled, and it formsa spiral spring which will yield freely in any desired direction and to any desired extent without becoming set in any particular position, while its'elastic strength is sufficient to carry the shield to its normal shape Whenever the shield is released from excessive pressure or stress.

coil is stiff enough to hold the shield against creeping, is pliable enough to conform readily any other desired manner.

In other words, the

.a diagram illustrating the formof the strengtlr ening-wire, and Fig. 3 is a section of the wire excessively enlarged in order to show the construction thereof.

The shield 1 is made in the customary man ner, and the strengthening-wire 2 is secured in the edge thereof by binding, stitching, or

The strengthening-wire is composed of the straight central wire 2 and the outer coil 2 both of the wires being too small in' diameter to be properly shown in a drawing. The wires arepreferably made of steel.

The secondary object of my invention is to provide means for connecting the shield with .the garment in a readily-desirable manner,

so that the shield may be easily transferred from one garment to another, and I accomplish that result by means of a pair of safetypins 3, which are pinned through eyelets 4 in the corners of the shield, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and used in the customary way to attach and detach the shield.

I claim- The combination with a dress-shield, of a reinforcement or stay for the edges of the shield comprising one wire coiled spirally around an uncoiled Wire, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof Isign my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. V

- SARA EMMA KING.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. KING, ARCHER T. DAVIS. 

